School: Gort Leitreach (roll number 15960)
- Location:
- Gortletteragh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Cionnaith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0214, Page 339
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“If you see a hen crowing on a floor or hear her crowing at night it is a sign of death.”
(continued from previous page)If a person brings anything out of a house where there is churning going on, there will come no butter on the milk. Danger may be averted by the person taking a brash before he leaves. When a cat begins to scrape a stick, or when he sits with his back to the fire it is a sign of storm. Curlew's whistle is a sign of rain. A blue flame in the griseach is a sign of rain. If you give out money on New Year's day before you get in any you will be giving out money all the year. The person who goes out first on New Year's Day will die first.(continues on next page)